Eudore (mythology)

Eudore (German for 'the gifted kingdoms') is the name of several female figures in Greek mythology .

Probably because of the meaning of the name as “gifted kingdom”, Eudore was used by ancient poets for various mythical women who were considered friendly, especially as a single name within a group of female beings. In his works, as far as has been preserved, Hesiod referred to three different female figures from the legend as Eudore: an Oceanid , a Nereid , and finally a Hyad . As the name of one of the Hyades, Eudore (sometimes Eudora) is also used by other ancient authors, but both the number and the various individual names of the Hyades differ greatly.

literature

Jessen: Eudore. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 914.

Remarks

↑ Hesiod , Theogony 360.
↑ Hesiod, Theogony 244, also the Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 2, 7.
↑ Hesiod, Fragment 14 ed. Rzach.
↑ Pherecytes , fragment 46 in Scholien zu Homer , Ilias 18, 486; Hyginus , De astronomia 2, 21 and Fabulae 192; Eustathios to Homer, p. 1155.

[1] Hesiod , Theogony 360.

[2] Hesiod, Theogony 244, also the Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 2, 7.

[3] Hesiod, Fragment 14 ed. Rzach.

[4] Pherecytes , fragment 46 in Scholien zu Homer , Ilias 18, 486; Hyginus , De astronomia 2, 21 and Fabulae 192; Eustathios to Homer, p. 1155.